Originally Posted by ArmyFW

No I'm not a troll lol. I took the compentency exam already. But do not have the actual license yet. There is a place right outside of base called the Proffesional Helicopter Pilots association that pretty much my entire class went to after instruments phase and took the test. They said when we get our wings bring our documents back to them and the actual FAA representative will be there to give us our actual license. They do that to minimize the wait time apparently. Since we already have taken the exam all we need to do is show that we graduated and it's done. I wish I knew more about it but I've only been flying since last October.

So how it works now for us we do our primary flight training in helicopters by a civilian contractor (URS). Then the fixed wing guys go to Dothan and get trained by CAE.

Really everyone, even the people at the PHPA are confused by our situation since we start on helicopters and end in fixed wing.